Milled Pavement Records

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Milled Pavement Records is an independent label based out of Portland, ME.

Portland, Maine, an old city by American standards, is streaked with streets of cobblestone and brick, each cut and laid by hand in a precise and indestructable grid, even now peeking through the weak tar hastily overpaved in the name of progress, the past literally breaking through the present. There couldn’t be a more apt metaphor for Portland’s own Milled Pavement record label.

Started in 2001 as a venue to release and promote his own music (the debut being L’Chaim [MP001]), label owner Moshe’s Milled Pavement imprint inevitably gained local and regional notice, not only as an anomaly in an indie hip hop world then-predominated by more cliched, urban stereotypes, but also for the judiciously minimal sound and underlying tenebrous thematic elements it unearthed from such a sparsely-populated, sleepy little corner of New England. The idea of such a specific sound and voluminous talent coming from Maine, of all places, seemed ludicrous to outsiders not privy to the heavily insular music scene there, and more curious attention rapidly followed.

As word spread, so did guest spots between intra- and extra-label artists, compilations (such as the Goose Bumps series [MP011, MP18, MP024, MP033]), shows, and requests for mixes/remixes.
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